Skyworks Ramps Low Power RF Solutions for Industrial, Scientific and Medical Bands
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March 19, 2008... Linear Products Business Captures Key Design Wins for Special Mobile Radio, RFID, Meter Reading and Industrial Control Applications

Woburn, Massachusetts USA--Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS), an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, today announced key design wins and production ramps for its growing line of power amplifiers (PAs), synthesizers, switches, and silicon voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs). These products uniquely enhance the performance of analog solutions that are available on the market today.

"Our Linear Products business continues to address new markets by providing highly integrated and innovative semiconductor solutions to solve real-world problems," said Stan Swearingen, Jr., vice president and general manager of Linear Products at Skyworks. "With our comprehensive RF solution set, Skyworks is setting the bar for performance and footprint, while at the same time reducing the need for extra components."

Skyworks' design wins in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) bands are supporting a host of applications ranging from professional special mobile radio (SMR), radio frequency identification (RFID), automatic meter reading (AMR), and industrial control.

With respect to AMR, according to The Scott Report on AMR Deployments, only 34 percent of the 300 million existing electric, gas and water meters in North America employ a wireless application, which significantly helps utility companies reduce meter-reading costs and increase revenue, load balance, and improve customer service. Outside of North America, just six percent of the 2.5 billion meters utilize AMR solutions. As a result, there is pent-up demand for an economical RF solution to more efficiently collect, report and monitor utility usage by both service providers and consumers.

About ISM

ISM radio bands were originally reserved internationally for the use of RF electromagnetic fields for industrial, scientific and medical purposes other than communications. In general, communications equipment must accept any interference generated by ISM equipment. In recent years, these bands have also been shared with communications applications.

About Skyworks

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity. The company's power amplifiers, front-end modules and direct conversion radios are at the heart of many of today's leading-edge multimedia handsets. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks also offers a diverse portfolio of linear products that support automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, industrial and medical applications.

Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit Skyworks' Web site at: www.skyworksinc.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release includes "forward-looking statements" intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include information relating to future results and expectations of Skyworks (including certain projections and business trends). Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "believes," "plans," "may," "will," "continue," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. All such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those projected, and may affect our future operating results, financial position and cash flows.

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: global economic and market conditions, such as the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our customers', products; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing technological environment; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized manufacturing processes; our reliance on several key customers for a large percentage of our sales; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; our ability to rapidly develop new products and avoid product obsolescence; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; lengthy product development cycles that impact the timing of new product introductions; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; unfavorable changes in product mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; shorter than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; economic, social and political conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security and health risks, possible disruptions in transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties; and the uncertainties of litigation, including disputes over intellectual property, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Note to Editors: Skyworks and Skyworks Solutions are trademarks or registered trademarks of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other brands and names listed are trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Skyworks Media Relations:
Amanda Ingalls
949-231-3045
or
Skyworks Investor Relations:
Thomas Schiller
949-231-4700

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